“I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.” IfsThinkingNeedsMindChildrenLittlesMightMotherCoursesHugeBalanceAdvantageTiredLiftingBeing A Mother Author:Melanie Roach
“You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.” IfsMightChoicesBuddhismBalanceEgoIllusionEternityYou ChooseWrong Choices Author:Frederick Lenz
“Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.” GivingHandsMightHumanityChurchJusticePoorChristianityRichBalanceDignityUltimateWeightInstitutionsNeighborExploitsLoving GodCooperativesBalance Of Power Author:John Shelby Spong
“There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.” PeopleTryingBelieveDoeMightJobsBalanceElementsNotionRapGamblingColorfulPropsDespicableShady Author:Greg Kinnear
“You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.” PeopleLittlesMightEarthRocksWindBalanceWalkingHealthyMetsWelcomeBehaveWireNudgeTumbling Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.” IfsHumansHandsMightTogetherFeltLinesStruggleBrokenBalanceCreaturesBirdWingsDanceTechniqueChecksProportionWarmthPerformersBrushesSpectatorsFly AwayVirtuosityStruggle For FreedomBroken Wings Author:Gelsey Kirkland
“A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.” MindHeartReasonMightPassionBalanceOutcomesAnarchyOutlaw Author:J-Ax
“It means a lot to me that people appreciate what I do. That's why I give a lot of importance to my fans and I like to maintain a certain proximity to them. I already feel very thankful that people enjoy my work so much, and becoming famous is not my ultimate goal. I think it's important to keep a good balance between what I want to do and what people want to hear; otherwise I might fall into the dark side.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingFeelsMeanImportantMightCertainFallEnjoySidesGoalDarkFansBecomingBalanceAppreciateUltimateImportanceDark SideUltimate GoalProximityVery ThankfulBecoming Famous Author:Shook
“There's a lot of stress on young people. They've always got exams and have to reach this goal or reach that goal. Yoga might be really good for them because there must be a lot of emotions that come up and yoga would really help to get a perspective and balance.” PeopleHelpingMightYoungGoalEmotionPerspectiveBalanceYogaStressCome UpExam Author:Jayne Middlemiss
“You might think you're connecting with your friends on Facebook but when was the last time you went out with your friends and asked them how they were doing? When was the last time you called them and prayed with them and really had a conversation? Go ahead and do those things with social media. I get it. I really do. But if you're lacking the other things, that's when it's out of balance and you're not really connected.” IfsThinkingMightLastsSocialMediaBalanceConversationSocial MediaConnectedLackingLast TimeConnecting Author:Jeremy Camp
“It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.” PeopleThinkingMightSexEasyWhiteInterestingBalancePicksCamerasVery InterestingHaving Sex Author:Sasha Grey
“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!” IfsTryingWellsMayLittlesI CanHomeMightAsksEasySoundSimpleCrazyDangerousBalanceTraditionPleasantNecksTunesVillageRoofScratchesOne WordFiddleFiddlersFiddler On The Roof Author:Sheldon Harnick
“All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.” ThinkingShouldTryingMightChristianSexVoiceWalksTaughtSeriousBalanceAskingLibraryAlternativesTeenagerAbortionPregnancyThroatAdsAdoptionTeenageAbstinencePublic LibrarySex EducationGloria Author:Cal Thomas
“On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist.” UseMightDoorsEffectsCrimeBalanceLocksPreventingEncryption Author:Matt Blaze
“All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.” IfsMightPainNamesDestinyRecordsBalanceLoversScriptsDetailsTragicRoyalMiraculousWheat Author:Jean-Henri Fabre
“I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's songs where I might have an idea, sometimes it might be a melody or something that I like, I make up a story to go with that melody. But I do think it's most important to have honest songs.” ThinkingWritingImportantIdeasSometimesStoriesMightSongHonestBalanceMelody Author:Leon Bridges
“The challenge is that if you stimulate your immune system, it might get over-stimulated. And it might actually start causing harm to normal cells in your body. So we have to work a balance between attacking the cancer and not attacking yourself.” IfsBodyMightChallengesBalanceNormalCancerHarmYour BodyCellsGet OverAttackingImmuneImmune System Author:Tyler Jacks
“For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.” IfsWritingWellsPlayLightMightFormSpaceBalanceEssentialsConcernChairsTimingEssaysTheoreticalPlaywriting Author:Sam Shepard
“Managers of hospitals, over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.” ShouldYearsMeanDoeHas BeensBookMightRunningBalancePatientInsightChainsManagersHospitalsSupermarketsHealth Services Author:Jo Brand
“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.” ThinkingLooksLittlesMatterReasonEnoughMightStrongSweetNeededBalanceNegativeNo Matter WhatCommitAdmireCuteWorthwhileTimingHelplessAdoptedStrong EnoughBad Timing Author:Gwen Cooper
“From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.” MayStatesMightEyeThreeBitsGoalDealsWonderEffectsCreationEmotionalParticularReaderBalanceHorrorAnxietyConcernHarmonyTerrorTalesPsychologicalPrimariesNarrativeDramaticShockDisplayInherentExaggerationMomentaryAmazementSophisticationWildnessDecorum Author:Peter Straub
“You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.” PeopleThinkingShouldHas BeensWholeMightHappensEarthFallGrowsGoneMinutesBirthBalanceShould HaveDiedIllStrikesMy TimeAirplaneLightningCrashColleaguesMight Have BeenBirth And DeathTime On EarthParts Of A WholeAirplane Crashes Author:Mitch Albom